OPEN STUDIO - WEEK 1
Reception: open house: Saturday, June 25, 2-4PM
June 20 - June 25
The first week of OPEN STUDIO welcomes Gabby DaSilva, Hailey Weber, Lauren Bell, Lila Kallstrom, Maha Abbas, Zachary Knuttila, and Yuka Yamaguchi into the space to make work.

Gabby DaSilva is a recent BFA graduate interested in connecting digital and physical mediums, as well as analog and digital technologies. Conceptually, she makes work that deals with the documentation of everyday events and the questions of how they can be presented.

Hailey Weber explores the emotional connections we form with the places we inhabit. Her works seek to translate concepts like love, peace, and joy into tangible forms.

Lauren Bell works to combine painting and sculpture. Incorporating mirror, glass, and epoxy resin coatings, her abstract relief-sculptures play with colour and the refraction and warping of light.

Lila Kallstrom is a watercolourist who explores a variety of subjects. Stylistically, she is interested in the potential of watercolour to capture and express atmospheric effects.

Maha Abbas is an emerging artist who works in a variety of media, including painting in watercolour and acrylic, drawing, and linocut printing. Her art incorporates found images and cultural iconography to explore ideas of power, colonialism, and identity.

Yuka Yamaguchi is a self-taught visual artist from Kobe, Japan. She moved to Canada in 2000, settling in Saskatoon in 2005. Colour pencils and paper are her medium. Her drawings are developed intuitively, without pre-planning. She believes in the power of the unconscious mind and, in one sense, her art is a way for her to explore the relationship between body and mind. She has exhibited her work regionally in Saskatoon and Edmonton, and internationally in Tokyo, Los Angeles, Berlin, Portland, San Francisco, and Taipei.

Zachary Knuttila is an emerging artist working primarily with code to generate digital images. He has recently begun exploring sculpture, using air flow and inflation to incorporate a degree of distance or lack of control into his creative process in a more tangible way.

OPEN STUDIO is one part of The Community Project. The Community Project is a series of events, workshops, and activities to build connections among the artists of Saskatoon. The Community Project has been co-developed by Biofeedback Collective and art placement. We gratefully acknowledge funding from SK Arts through their Artists in Communities Grant Program.